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4.72 AVERAGE
4.72 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
emotional
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
This book changed my perspective on many issues facing and involving our legal system here in the U.S., and I have been thinking and mulling over it since I put it down almost a month ago. Stevenson's work, while very legal-jargon heavy and sometimes hard to read, helps open the eyes of those not close to cases like the ones he works with to the massive disparities of our judicial system.
I first picked up this book as a fresh high school graduate but was unable to finish it, as the jargon used was difficult for me to get through. On my second read, now three years and many college English classes later, I found it extremely hard to put down. Cases portrayed by Stevenson showed the true reality of discrimination that I had not been aware of before. As he leads the reader through the specific case of Walter McMillian, he mentions and uses other cases as well to truly highlight the inadequacies our justice system has. At many times I found this book to be one that put me between a rock and a hard place - I wanted to put it down due to the sheer emotional weight it held but could not stop reading, even when some stories literally brought me to tears.
I think that this novel is one that everyone should read or at least look into, whether one is a U.S. citizen or not. The accessibility of the text may not be there for many readers, as I mentioned it was hard to get through the terminology at times, but its message and purpose stick with you much past the final page. It's important for us to see the realities of those who are supposed to protect us and see how far we have come and have yet to go still.
I first picked up this book as a fresh high school graduate but was unable to finish it, as the jargon used was difficult for me to get through. On my second read, now three years and many college English classes later, I found it extremely hard to put down. Cases portrayed by Stevenson showed the true reality of discrimination that I had not been aware of before. As he leads the reader through the specific case of Walter McMillian, he mentions and uses other cases as well to truly highlight the inadequacies our justice system has. At many times I found this book to be one that put me between a rock and a hard place - I wanted to put it down due to the sheer emotional weight it held but could not stop reading, even when some stories literally brought me to tears.
I think that this novel is one that everyone should read or at least look into, whether one is a U.S. citizen or not. The accessibility of the text may not be there for many readers, as I mentioned it was hard to get through the terminology at times, but its message and purpose stick with you much past the final page. It's important for us to see the realities of those who are supposed to protect us and see how far we have come and have yet to go still.
I expected a book that'd frustrate me about our criminal justice system. I read a book that made me frustrated at the world we live in. So many emotions. I can't fathom the years lost in prison for crimes you were falsely accused of. I can't imagine the inhumanity in locking up folks for things that happened when they were teenagers. For those who were put in adult prison, I cannot imagine the trauma they experienced. For folks like George Skinny, my heartaches.
I found it very timely to read about Bryan Stevenson's work and the impact he had on families and communities. I am in the midst of my own life crisis or whatnot and I'm reassured that as long as I'm helping people, I'm helping the world.
I found it very timely to read about Bryan Stevenson's work and the impact he had on families and communities. I am in the midst of my own life crisis or whatnot and I'm reassured that as long as I'm helping people, I'm helping the world.
This book will be unforgetable. The people, stories, and lives discussed here are core shaking. I teared up many times as I listen along. The statistics Bryan adds in opened my eyes more to how broken the justice system still is.
10/10 READ THIS!
10/10 READ THIS!
An important book that focuses on the death penalty administered in the South in the 80s and 90s, its impact on the lives of those convicted, and why our justice system seems to be dedicated to systemic racism even still. Violence is still everywhere, and the death penalty is one way it continues to be seen as innocents are convicted of crimes they didn’t commit.
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced